Indi Hispanis aurum sitientibus, aurum liquefactum infundunt. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Indi Hispanis aurum sitientibus, aurum liquefactum infundunt.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Panama; Executions and executioners; Gold; Colonists; Spaniards; Village communities; Dismemberment; Cannibalism
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Panama; Central America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A Spanish man lies on his back on the ground, bound by ropes and restrained by Indigenous men who hold his head and feet. Another Indigenous man pours melted gold into the Spaniard’s mouth, while two other Indigenous men watch. To the right, two Indigenous men dismember the body of a second Spaniard. In the background, another body lies on the ground, this one missing a leg. Nearby, several Indigenous people stand around a fire with a wooden frame set over it for roasting limbs, and one of the men begins to eat a dismembered arm. There are several dwellings in the background. This image is identical to one found on page 187 of Frankfurt, 1594, but colored.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23730
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo Anno M. CCCCXCII
Parent Collection: 1594 Latin; 1594 Latin
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Panama; Executions and executioners; Gold; Colonists; Spaniards; Village communities; Dismemberment; Cannibalism

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